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  • Thumbnail for Staffordshire figure
    Staffordshire figures are a type of popular pottery figurine made in England from the 18th century onward. Many Staffordshire figures made from 1740 to...
    31 KB (3,282 words) - 01:15, 19 February 2024
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    oven Ceramic and Allied Trades Union Trent and Mersey Canal Staffordshire figure Staffordshire dog figurine Edwin Bennett, apprenticed here together with...
    9 KB (1,047 words) - 10:29, 28 April 2024
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    Staffordshire dog figurines are matching pairs of pottery spaniel dogs, standing guard, which were habitually placed on mantelpieces in 19th-century homes...
    15 KB (1,621 words) - 05:56, 2 March 2024
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    Staffordshire figure of Spring, from a set of the Four Seasons, Neale & Co, c. 1780, 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)...
    6 KB (705 words) - 02:02, 31 March 2024
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    before the incident. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which owns the Staffordshire figure group illustrated, suggests that the continuing popularity of the...
    45 KB (5,604 words) - 15:43, 10 June 2024
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    French term for wicker baskets slung on either side of a pack animal. Staffordshire figure, c. 1750 fromTriptych: Mr Peter Ducane, Mary, nee Norris, his wife...
    4 KB (405 words) - 11:06, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uncle Tom
    slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as a young, strong Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master (Simon Legree)...
    23 KB (2,733 words) - 02:13, 9 June 2024
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    or metal. The earthenware Staffordshire figures of the 18th and 19th centuries were enormously popular, with Staffordshire dog figurines the most popular;...
    3 KB (220 words) - 01:48, 29 October 2022
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    vases on the mantel-piece, were shaking violently." American, 1849 Staffordshire figure, c. 1860, depicting the punishment accorded to Mazeppa, after the...
    4 KB (441 words) - 13:01, 16 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tamworth, Staffordshire
    Tamworth (/ˈtæmwərθ/, /ˈtæməθ/) is a market town and borough in Staffordshire, England, 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Birmingham. The town borders North...
    73 KB (7,106 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Whieldon
    Thomas Whieldon (category Staffordshire pottery)
    1719 in Penkhull, Staffordshire – March 1795) was an English potter who played a leading role in the development of Staffordshire pottery. The attribution...
    20 KB (2,543 words) - 18:59, 2 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Uncle Tom's Cabin
    white people. Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and a Christ-like figure who, like Jesus at his crucifixion, forgives the people responsible for...
    88 KB (10,604 words) - 04:13, 21 May 2024
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    maint: location missing publisher (link) Exeter Annual wrestling match, Staffordshire Advertiser, 8 August 1812, p4. Atisu, Etsey (September 9, 2019). "The...
    20 KB (1,945 words) - 17:35, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stoke-on-Trent
    (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2022, the city...
    147 KB (13,216 words) - 13:58, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Whitefield
    Whitefield's legacy: George Whitefield was probably the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century. Newspapers called him the 'marvel of the age'...
    69 KB (7,712 words) - 23:48, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar
    retold many times. It has also been also commemorated in a series of Staffordshire figures of the "Death of Munrow". Mackenzie erroneously identified the...
    17 KB (1,797 words) - 09:33, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pew group
    Pew group (category Staffordshire pottery)
    The pew group is a rare type of pottery Staffordshire figure, apparently made only in the 1740s. Typically it has two or three "rigidly posed" figures...
    9 KB (1,014 words) - 16:17, 18 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Medici lions
    Staffordshire figure of a Medici lion, enamels on Lead-glazed earthenware, circa 1820....
    26 KB (2,512 words) - 21:27, 22 January 2024
  • John Caudwell (category People from Shelton, Staffordshire)
    a baby to Stoke-on-Trent and raised in Wellesley Street in Shelton, Staffordshire, and with his brother Brian attended Shelton Church of England School...
    21 KB (1,933 words) - 21:06, 23 May 2024
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    Enoch Wood (category Staffordshire pottery)
    major families in Staffordshire pottery. Starting as a modeller, he established a successful business in Burslem in the Staffordshire Potteries, from 1790-1818...
    5 KB (485 words) - 19:55, 23 May 2022
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